after Tachihara, the Architecture of Regard : From the Mountains to the See

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TAR presents : Twombly, the Ancient Remains

Cy Twombly moved to Italy from the USA in 1957.

His ‘Poems to the Sea’ suite of twenty-four drawings were executed in a single day in 1959.

Twombly lived north of Rome at Bassano in Teverina. “Downstream from the city centre, not far away from the Tiber, lies Lake Vadimo, locally known as the "Pond", described by Pliny the Younger as "a lying wheel with a regular circumference [...] paler, greener and more intense than the sea." - Wikipedia

At the 1988 Venice Biennale he exhibited paintings responding to the Bassano in Teverina “Pond” along with unpainted plaster sculptures. Henry Weatherfield chanced upon that exhibition just hours before leaving Venice, that one time visit. “Paler, greener and more intense than the sea is the see", he later wrote.

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Exhibition ends today

Today is the last day of PETER TYNDALL : SINCLAIR+GALLERY at Castlemaine Art Museum.

Heartfelt thanks to all of CAM’s dedicated staff and volunteers : to director Naomi Cass who proposed this exhibition, to Jenny Long invaluable curator consultant, Nell Fraser, Sarah Frazer, Anna Schwann, Deb Peart, Libby English, Noel Hourigan, James McArdle, to Giles Fielke and Memo.

Best wishes to Gabrielle Martin whose own Sinclair Gallery exhibition opens on 29 July.

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re. Visible means of support (#3)

Today, Barnett Newman.

 TARist regards Barnett Newman's 'The Third' at 'Two Decades of 

 American Art', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1967 

 photo Geoff Parr

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Today, Ellsworth Kelly.

 Above, in his Broad Street studio, New York, 1956.

 His first exhibition, at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1956.

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re. Visible means of support

Following on from the previous 

Instruments of the Passion post 

re. nails in the wall...

Things suspended by strings

for us to see :

Mark Rothko in his studio (1964) with his moveable White Wall props and adjustable hanging wires. Photos by Hans Namuth.

Mark Rothko and an installation of his suspended paintings at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York :

Mark Rothko's studio as represented in the John Logan play "Red" (2009) :

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Go West | 1992-2022

In the glasnost of 1993, Pet Shop Boys released their version of the 1992 Village People song Go West.

Thirty years later, it's day 8 of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. We watched Go West on Rage this morning with very mixed feelings as Tennant and Lowe, dressed in the yellow and blue of the Ukraine flag, walk through Red Square pointing Russia the way West; then, guided and guarded by a red Black Lives Matter Statue of Liberty, as they lead their following of fellow freedom seekers up the Stairway to Heaven.

Come on, come on, come on, come on
(Together) we will go our way
(Together) we will leave someday
(Together) your hand in my hands
(Together) we will make our plans
(Together) we will fly so high
(Together) tell all our friends goodbye
(Together) we will start life new
(Together) this is what we'll do

life is peaceful there
(Go west) in the open air
(Go west) where the skies are blue
(Go west) this is what we're gonna do
(Go west, this is what we're gonna do, go west)

we will love the beach
(Together) we will learn and teach
(Together) change our pace of life
(Together) we will work and strive

I know you love me
(I want you) how could I disagree?
(So that's why) I make no protest
(When you say) you will do the rest

life is peaceful there
(Go west) in the open air
(Go west) baby you and me
(Go west) this is our destiny (aah)
(Go west) sun in wintertime
(Go west) we will do just fine
(Go west) where the skies are blue
(Go west, this is what we're gonna do)

There where the air is free
We'll be (we'll be) what we want to be (ah, ah, ah, ah)
Now if we make a stand (ah)
We'll find (we'll find) our promised land (ah)

there are many ways

(To live there) in the sun or shade
(Together) we will find a place
(To settle) where there's so much space
(Without rush) and the pace back east
(The hustling) rustling just to feed
(I know I'm) ready to leave too
(So that's what) we are gonna do
(What we're gonna do is)

life is peaceful there
(Go west) there in the open air
(Go west) where the skies are blue
(Go west) this is what we're gonna do
(Life is peaceful there)
Go west (in the open air)
Go west (baby, you and me)
Go west (this is our destiny)
Come on, come on, come on, come on
(Go west) sun in wintertime
(Go west) we will feel just fine
(Go west) where the skies are blue
(Go west) this is what we're gonna do
(Come on, come on, come on)

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Sunbury 72

Ye Gods of Rock, it's another 50th anniversary!

Barefoot in the Grass : 50 Year Anniversary of the Sunbury Music Festival is at Hume Global Learning Centre, Sunbury, until March 27. 

Tonight, there will be a panel discussion featuring festival lighting director and author Peter Evans, plus roadies, musicians and fans, and performances by Mike Rudd of Spectrum and Brenden Mason of Madder Lake. 

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Your correspondent was there too, with a notebook a nib pen and a bottle of India Ink.

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In 1971, Mary Macqueen was one of our RMIT Architecture faculty tutors. At Crossley Gallery, I had seen her rapid impression pencil drawings of zoo animals. Hence...

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TAR inter-being at inter-section approaching Geelong Gallery

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ISO POD

From the 15th century and earlier 

(and also today within the fields of statistics and metaphysics) individual meant indivisible, typically describing any numerically singular thing, but sometimes meaning "a person". From the 17th century on, individual has indicated separateness, as in individualism.

- Wikipedia

1951

"O vast indivisible (interdependent) regard!"

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2020

ISO, Australian slang for self-isolation, was the Australian National Dictionary Centre word of the year.

20 November 2021 

"Melbourne’s ‘freedom’ protest fever spreads across the country" (The Age)

  

Today

at our local medical centre.

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Land Rights, Naming Rights, Label Rights

In 1983, Daniel Thomas, then Senior Curator at the National Gallery of Australia, contacted the Fosterville Institute of Applied & Progressive Cultural Experience to discuss institution Label differences.

FIAPCE had previously requested the NGA use the FIAPCE Label format when exhibiting Works Of Art created by FIAPCE. The NGA had presumed its own Label Claim Right to re/describe all its dis/contents, even those belonging to others. Daniel Thomas suggested the compromise of two Labels, displayed together. One representing the art/worldview of the NGA and one representing the art/worldview of FIAPCE. "The more the merrier", FIAPCE responded, and so it was agreed. (Even so, the NGA placed its Label above rather than beside the "Artist's label".)

Something similar is now happening in Australia as Place Names come under public review. Melbourne/Naarm for instance.

Governor Bourke visited Port Phillip in March 1837, confirmed Lonsdale's choice of a site for the new town and named it Melbourne on 10 April 1837[13] after the then British prime minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who resided in the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire. The General Post Office opened under that name on 13 April 1837.[16] Before being officially named, the town had several interim names – including Batmania, Bearbrass, Bareport, Bareheep, Barehurp and Bareberp.[14][15][16]  - Wikipedia

If the Crown Nameplate Stampers are too stricture bound to easily make change, then those closer to the ground feel less such restraint as they re-state their preferred place name claims on envelope addresses and official forms. Observed today on ABC TV (Victoria), the presenter introduced a news update with, 

"I'm Nate Byrne, coming to you from the land of the Wurundjeri People."

Closer to home, between (Captain) Hepburn and Castlemaine on Dja Dja Wurrung country, the stream name 'Jim Crow Creek' is once again under review, this time with a suggested alternative. 

       

             Swiss Tunnel at Jim-Crow Diggings, c. 1858, by Richard

             Daintree (1832 - 1878), courtesy State Library of Victoria.

"Hepburn Shire Council is working with project partners, Mount Alexander Shire Council, North Central Catchment Management Authority and Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation (DJARRA), on the proposed renaming of Jim Crow Creek to Larni Barramal Yaluk."

- 'A New Name for Jim Crow Creek?', The Wombat Post, October 1, 2021

Place names, knighthoods, State Holidays, Standing Order Prayers in Parliament, public statues and other prominent signage. From below, all are under use-by-date review. 

In 1931, at the official Official Opening of the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum, the Flag of Australia (inset with the British flag) was displayed vertically and self-mirroring at either side of the symmetrical entrance.

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Leading up to the SINCLAIR+GALLERY stage review at CAM (December 2021- June 2022), we note this 'Take two' re-staging of the official opening of the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum (recently renamed Castlemaine Art Museum).

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The horizontals, verticals and diagonals of the Union Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain are here re-presented in the manner of the Diamond and the Square mythoLOGOS/HA HA and the Southern Cross constellation projection is re-presented according to the Great Net mythoLOGOS/HA HA

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